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Gibbon wrote of Lord Hailes: 'In his Annals of Scotland he has shewn himself a diligent collector and an accurate critic. Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 233. See ante, ii. 237. See ante, ii. 79. 'Versate diu quid ferre recusent, Quid valeant humeri. 'Weigh with care What suits your genius, what your strength can bear. FRANCIS. Horace, Ars Poet. 1. 39.
In the first case, there is no danger in accepting them, 'valeant quantum valere possunt'. In the latter case, it may be useful to seem to accept them, and artfully to turn the battery upon him who raised it. There is an incontinency of friendship among young fellows, who are associated by their mutual pleasures only, which has, very frequently, bad consequences.
Grevenkop to do it for me; but that letter was directed to Berlin. My pain is now much abated, though I have still some fine remains of it in my shoulder, where I fear it will tease me a great while. I must be careful to take Horace's advice, and consider well, 'Quid valeant humeri, quid ferre recusent'.
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